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' ~ 777 _ Chicago examiner vol xii no 297 a m thursday jrkh-t vjfnt l,ihn 1 suburbs * two cents thursday Chicago december 3 1914 registered u s patent office girl leads victim into thugs loop store trap lerchant bound with rope like that used to strangle emil emsheimer 400 diamond is f taken from him by thieves iosely following the mysterious and tragic death of emil emsheimer aged manufacturer of hat frames mother crime was committed last light in which the robbers bound iheir victim with sash rope similar to that which garroted the old nan the police now believe that ; they hit the trail of the rope bandits both crimes will be near olution their latest victim was joseph wiseman 906 crescent place who as pounced upon by two robbers idea by a young woman in store of the harry hart tailor ing company 30-32 south clark street where he is manager when eiseman entered the store he was xnocked unconscious by the butt of i revolver bound tightly with win low sash rope gagged and then rob jed of a diamond stud valued at 400 and his purse containing 2 lesui/t of flirtation the rope used to bind eiseman has seen turned over to captain william p o'brien of the detective bureau svho is conducting the investigation into the emsheimer death mystery at the iroquois hospital where eiseman had been taken after the robbery he said he believed the hold up was engineered by a pretty blond iri known as ethel eiseman said e flirted with the girl a week ago lid made an engagement to meet her -. ed wahl's saloon 10 south clark reet at 8 o'clock last night while we were in the saloon the u-1 suggested that i go back to the ore and get my overcoat said eise uan i did so leaving her there hen i opened the door i was fol wed in by two young men they feed revolvers to my head i re â€” ited then they struck me over e head at the same time i could e the girl on the outside laughing le was evidently their confederate 3ek emsheimer employe while a search was going on for ese robbers two detectives from ptain o'brien's office were also ing to locate a young man employe the emsheimer factory for the pur p.se of putting him under the third egree in connection with the death | his employer following the finding of the hat in the theory that the manufacturer is killed by a thrust into his ear ras discussed there were a few drops of blood ) the old man's right ear when he as found said coroner's physician rilliam d mcnally but the blood as thought to be one of the effects f strangulation death could have been caused by le thrust of a hatpin into the ear sisters try to die as job hunt fails mother smells gas just in time to save lives of girls weary of tramping streets for work it is hard for a girl to find a job in Chicago now and the longer she has to tramp the streets on half ra tions asking for work the weaker she becomes so even if she does find a job she may be â€” by that time â€” physically unfit for toil lillian and margaret dunn how ever did not reach that stage lil lian is sixteen years old her sister eighteen after dark yesterday they came home 819 west thirty-eighth street their mother had some sup per ready the girl were not very hungry there must be jobs in Chicago â€” somewhere said lillian little good it does us if there are margaret replied gloomily we can't find them perhaps to-morrow " the mother's timidly hopeful words had no listeners however for the tired girls went away to their room the mother washed the dishes and then sat by the window for a while thinking presently the odor of gas came to her and in sudden panic she ran to the girls room they were lying on the bed the gas jet open somehow the mother found her way to a telephone the police came and a pfalmotor the girls were not per mitted to die â€” although there was an accident an explosion of liquid oxy gen that broke the pulmotor and burned the face of policeman morris casey who was standing too close the lives of the girls had been saved then they were awake oh what's the use moaned lil lian when she knew that she was to live perhaps to r morrow " the mother said there must be jobs asserted mar garet feebly if we could find them whitman guarded by posse from gunmen new york dec 2 â€” police com missioner woods to-day ordered de lectives to guard governor-elect whitman against attack from gun men what prompted the act was the report that at a socialist meeting in madison square one of the speakers pointed at the house where whitman ives and said we want personal liberty and will get it if we have to use force whitman is against us he wants to drive the gangsters out of new york if he doesn't look out he may get a bomb for christmas winner at matching is bobbed of 400 joseph lehaie a farmer from man teno 111 turned the tables on two confidence men in the matching game yesterday they permitted the farmer to win 15 then lehaie quit however as he opened his wallet containing 400 to put away his win nings the men snatched the purse and escaped lehaie said he met the men in front of the art institute while he was inspecting the lions fifty policewomen patrolling london london dec 2 â€” a force of fifty policewomen has quietly established itself here in neat blue uniforms and exaggerated bowler hats women police volunteers will in future be a feature of the london streets al though their headquarters are next door to scotland yard the movement at present has no official status u.s equipped for battle of only half hour major general wotherspoon re ports alarming condition in nation's coast defenses washington dec 2 â€” in his an nual report major general wother spoon chief of the united states army staff makes the startling an nouncement that the united states coast defense forts have ammunition for only half an hour's battle after a fight of such length the entire coast line would be at the mercy of any foe who might attack he says material for the coast artillery defenses as at present established and under construction is fairly adequate in the matter of guns mortars and mine material there is a serious de i flciency however in the ammunition for these defenses the supply of which the department has been at tempting to maintain being on the j basis of approximately an hour's full | and active operation of the guns in the united states proper and a two hours full and active operation of the guns in the oversea fortifications j gives shortage percentages according to the report of the chief of coast artillery the amount of ammunition now available and pro vided for by appropriations is equal to about 73 per cent of this require ment for the guns and 50 per cent for the mortars it is estimated that only one man is hit in the european war for every 10,0<jp shots fired at this rate if an eherrfy invaded the united states the army has rifle ammunition enough to hit 24u00 men the official figures of the war de partmekt are that the army has on hand an^d being manufactured only 698,374 tjnited states rifles and 241 000,000 rcsunds of ammunition it has 852 field and 580,098 rounds of ammunitioy the sami shortage of ammunition is found alsv in the coast defenses short of vorpedoes lack of idtaig-range torpedoes is pointed to as a paramount weakness by rear admiral joseph strauss chief of the bureau of ordnance in his annual report all the battleships^except the two latest dreadnoughts the armored cruisers of the tennessee class the scout cruisers and some destroyers the admiral says are equipped with a short-range torpedo which may be considered obsolete for the battle fleet since the battleships nevada and oklahoma were designed however all vessels have been provided with the modern type of torpedo and as rapidly as possible the equipment of older ships is being changed about twelve months are necessary to com plete one torpedo and many are lost every year in practice . president wilson to-day made an appointment with representative gardner for monday morning to talk over his resolution for a commission to investigate the adequacy of ; the army and navy further indication that the admin istration hopes to defeat the gardner resolution was given by representa tive fitzgerald _ chairman of the ap propriations committee after a visit to the white house he said if mr gardner is looking for in formation he can find all he desires in reports made to congressional committees by army and navy heads i shall have something to say when mr gardner's resolution comes up senator lodge announced to-day that he will introduce the resolution in the senate he said the administration will be making a grave mistake if it stops an investi gation tho people have a right to know if their defenses are weak new york dec 2 if congress refuses to pans the gardner resolution the new national security . league organized yesterday by more than 200 representative citizens of new york will undertake the work itself morgenthau threat forced turks to yield london dec 2 â€” charles tucker a refugee from constantinople writes from athens to the chronicle giving an account of the difficulties the british met in leaving the turkish capital ' the authorities had promised henry morgenthau the ainerican ambassa dor to permit the terrifted english people to leave at a given time but after their arrival at the station re fused to let the train go mr tucker's story continues mr morgenthau was determined to have his own wiay the treatment he witnessed provoked his anger and stimulated his determination to make the turks respect his wishes next morning it was lfearned he had for mally advised the - turkish govern ment that unless the jbrtjish colony was allowed to lsaÂ»e tttat ; day he would demand his passports and take every one away oh his special trains as his private guests ; . . ' the turks immedia'tetyryieldedand the ambassador woii the day > v gin dance is biggest ball ever held hehe nobody trots or tangoes affair greater success than its sponsors dreamed at 8 o'clock last night h b marsh 2926 wilcox avenue a carpenter bowed low to mrs e eicholtz 2416 west monroe street a seamstress in dreamland hall west van buren and paulina streets then having paid the city of Chicago 30 cents for the privilege the two glided out upon the floor the first couple to scratch the wax at the first municipal dance not more than a dozen couples followed them in the two step and the band played the call of the wild at 8:40 o'clock a gentleman with j a white mustache at whose side i stood a handsome woman tapped im | patiently on the ticket seller's shelf j and laid down 75 cents by that time | the ticket seller was tired and he wasn't quite sure anyway that he would not get in trouble if he let any more people into the great hail but he finally obliged mayor har rison and mrs harrison who had with them mrs heaton owsley the mayor's sister and mr and mrs paul bartle.tt an hour later it would have been as hard to find the mayor on the floor as the carpenter ball breaks records for until ; some statistician dis proves last night's affair must stand as the largest ball ever seen in chi cago and never in Chicago nor anywhere else was there a better be haved assemblage of its size a pock et or two was picked but they pick pockets in church an extenuating circumstance for the police is that there was standing room only in the greater part of a building that spreads over twenty-three city lots long before 10 o'clock the selling of tickets was stopped and for ah hour thereafter hundreds of persons stood wistfully outside and hoped against hope for a chance to get in when the department of public wel fare counts the cash it took in at 15 cents a ticket the number of those present may be known there was no count on the turnstile but the g-ateman thought he had let in about 5,000 philip trout supervisor of dancing offered to resign if there were fewer than 10,000 persons in the hall the manager of dreamland â€” a disinter ested party last night gave as his calm judgment that there were near er 12,000 onlookers numerous the inflow was stopped however before the congestion became too great to prevent dancing everywhere but known only to a few reporters and policemen were policewomen some promenaded in street dress others in dancing frocks floated around among the merry makers with an eye open for misbe havior there was work for none nor did a sharp lookout yield a single call for professional activity on the part of dreamland's fourteen uniformed mentors who stood at their posts in the midst of the dancers as they do on other nights only waltz and two-step music was played and most of the dancers seemed to take pride in displaying the fact that they knew the meaning of the west point rule of five inches between partners owens ijv full dress quite informally and with no flour ish of trumpets nor speechmaking the dance was started so few per sons were in the hall when the first music sounded that murmurs of frost were heard but when the west side had a good chance to get home and dine and change its clothes it contributed a multitude in accordance with the announce ment issued by mrs leonora z me dor that the dance would be strictly informal there was no display of evening clothes â€” except those of county judge owens who had an ex cuse because he was up front in the grand march and of dr james brit ten plainly there was much sun day best on the floor but modesty prevailed among the young women the mayor and mrs harrison in jected themselves into the throngr as democratically and unceremoniously as the humblest citizen and his sister no committee met them they were as far as the coat counter before they were recognized there the mayor encountered a young man who was disinclined to accept his wraps without the required 10-cent cloak room ticket until mrs harrison who hail noticed his mistake hastened qp behind ~ him calling carter car ter .-'.:' - ,:â– \ that was the coatman's cue he in families gary goes to night school everybody studies after supper dishes are washed day classes smaller gary ind dec 2 after supper the whole family goes to school not only the whole family but scores hundreds of whole families make off to the gary night schools as soon as the supper dishes have been washed and put away the froebel school which exists for the education of the foreign-born and foreign language speaking work ing people of gary now has a bigger attendance by night than by day in the daytime it educates 1,900 children and at night it gives instruction to 2,100 adults bring the whole family that is the invitation which su perintendent george swarts extend ed to all gary the response was immediate new ly married couples spent part of their honeymoon at school studying gram mar and arithmetic older men brought wives and children everybody studied what he pleased selecting according to his needs from the two hundred courses that are of fered gary's foreign quarter is now believed to be one of the most stu dious communities in the world can't help being loved says actor new york dec 2 henry santry actor admits that the women love him and he just can't help it if they do ' i acknowledge he stated to-day in answer to his wife's action for a supreme court separation that jeanette sherwood and other women have expressed an affection for me both verbally and in writing but this is an incident to which most actors are subjected i have never been guilty of any misconduct mrs olga santry says she suspect ed her husband and miss sherwood of being a trifle too friendly 10,000,000 war tax assessed on antwerp london dec 2 â€” the germans have imposed a war tax of 10,000,000 on antwerp and as a guaranty of payment have made hostages of the entire commune council according to a belgian citizen who has arrived at breda holland from that city one-fifth of the impost has been paid and the remainder is to be paid at the rate of half a million daily the distress in antwerp is becom ing acute the poorer classes are facing starvation wheels chained but 1,000 wagon is gone i a driver for c f adams & co left his wagon standing at goethe and la salle streets yesterday he took the precaution however to chain the wheels when he returned the wagon with goods valued at 1,000 was gone the driver is unable to understand how the horse was able to pull the load with the wheels chained keep young by sleep is judge gary's plan new york dec 2 elbert h gary chairman of the board of di rectors of the united states steel corporation has discovered a new vitality preserver a caller at the gary home at 6 o'clock this evening found him in bed no i'm not sick smilingly ex plained judge gary it is my custom to go to bed at this time to rest my nerves and body judge gary retires about 5 in the afternoon whenever possible and recuperates until 7 o'clock cracker king 83 goes under knife new york dec 2 daniel d brinckerhoff eighty-three years old founder of the national biscuit com pany and known as the cracker king was taken from his home in ah ambulance to the pplyclinic hos pital to-nigrht . dr albert andrews brennan who is to perform a serious t)peratipn on mr brinckerhoff satur day morning wthrid not state its cause british capture boer rebels chief russians 12 miles from cracow teutons capture 80,000 prisoners belgrade taken serbs crushed germans surrounded at lodz trying to besiege town hutgutway out and fight with reinforced army : rxtssiaf official statement issued at peirograd last night : oil december 1 there was a rela *<$&:' '^ tire lull on all the fronts a*jjlgeja in the region of lowicz the ao wqvt)t&s tion continued but was less intense ljsfff toward midnight the germans sf marching compactly made a fierce ' atiback against our positions north russian of iodz but were repulsed > coat f rmt south of cracow we entered vielicksfca xtwelv 3 miles south of the city germanofficial statement issued yesterday in berlin j the report circulated in the for j-/\j%v eigpi press that the 23,000 prisoners c < 3hfc taken by us at kutno are included fflflfl/fflf in the 40,000 russian prisoners re ported by us previously is untrue in the battles of wloclawek -' kutno lodz and libwicz our east ern>anny has taken between no cmt 1 vember 11 and december 1 over 80,000 unwounded prisoners the germans are now moving in the direction of hdwicz a position on the enemy's right a ger man offensive toward lodz and lowicz is probable in the servian theater the austrian troops have captured fortified positions after obstinate resistance the servians lost 1,244 prisoners special cable to the examiner london dec 2 â€” the germans have pushed back the russians in the region of lowicz and captured 30,000 prisoners the german war office assered to-day _â€” _^__ i the following statement was issuer in berlin in the battles of wlaclawek.kut no lodz and lowicz the eastern army has taken between november 11 and december 1 more than 80,000 un wounded russian prisoners . . there is no news from east prus sia in northern poland battles ar taking their normal course in southern poland the enemy's attacks were repulsed the success of the germans in cut ting their way out of the trap laid for them by the russians has cost general rennenkampf his command according to a dispatch from peiro grad which says the russian leader has been relieved because he was two days late in carrying out orders $>Â£ the russian general staff . the delay is said to have prevented the cdm plete encircling of the german army and resulted in its escape reopejf battle of lodz advices from petrograd are that two new german corps hurried down the valley of the vistula the russian call for reinforcements was answered and the battle of lodz has reopened it might be renamed the battle of lowicz as to-day the severest fight ing rages around that city the lbwlcz-strykon-lodz-kalish railroad is the bone of contention the ger mans hold this on the line from stfykon to zdun skawola the germans have built trenches covered in the front with shields of barbed wire rivetjed giin eriiplacements are all prepared fox prolonged fighting the german right flank rests securely on the wartha the left is on the vistula for two days the germans lava assumed a vigorous offensive but certain russian corps have fotigrht through from glowno to sobota threatening the lowicz-kutno line which is vital to the germans in the northern area the germans have not yet entrenched it is feared they plan to do this and thus bring the tedious type of warfare to th,o eastern zone hoping in this manner to maintain themselves in russia during the winter an'd compel tiie russian army to abandon the idea oj invading silesia rvss strroujfij besiegers writing of the campaign arourd lodz the moscow correspondent ojt the dally telegraph says lodz the most important '> tmÃŸ \ gen christian 5 de wet ! whowithv sgen fredericlo \ beyers led hj | the revolt \ ? in the union < of south africa revolt in africa ended by capture special cable to the examiner pretoria dec 2 lt is officially announced that general de wet the boer leader who headed the late re volt against the british government of the union of south africa has been captured the capture of general de wet leaves the south african rebels with out a leader general beyers and lieutenant colonel maritz already have fled de wet one of the most famous generals in the boer war was the leading spirit in the anti-british movement at the outbreak of the european war and on october 26 openly revolted and took the field at the head of an army the point upon which general de wet took exception to the policy of premier botha was the determination of the union leaders not merely to defend themselves against the ger mans but to take the aggressive and invade german southwest africa in which dwell a number of boers who refused to accept the terms of peace offered by britain general beyers also a famous boer war leader was commandant of the union defense force but resigned on september 15 out of sympathy with de wet burglars get 200 loot two burglars entered the residence of p e wilsey 1100 sheridan road evanston about 8 o'clock last;night when the family was absent and stole jewelry and silverware valued at 200 serb city falls after long fight vienna dec 2 â€” belgrade servia which has been irnder attack by the austrians almost continually since the opening of the wan was again occupied by austrian troops to-day the servians are retreating along the entire southern front ' general frank commander of the fifth army corps announced the oc cupation of the city in the following telegram to emperor francis joseph on the occasion of the sixty-sixth anniversary of your reign permit me to lay at your feet the information that belgrade was to-day occupied by the fifth army corps - during the four ' months siege which was lifted on!y on two oc casions when the servians were â– in temporary possession of semlin the hungarian city across the river save belgrade has been bombarded almost continuously and is now reported by persons who have been there to be nothing more than a mass of ruins there is no disguising the fact that the situation of the servians is ex tremely dangerous although russia soon may be able to send an army to aid king peter and to save his coun try from complete subjection paris dec 2 semi-official ad vices received to-day by the havas agency from nish contain the ad mission that the austriansi have won further victories in servia after a number of rearguard actions during the last few days the servian troops were forced to fall back on december 1 from the region around oudjttza and kocieritch the retreat it is said was made itf good order â– the , lighting along the kolubara river is said to have been attended with some success for the servians iri an engagement near laracvatz on november 28 the servians are report ed to have taken positions of the enemy capturing twenty-seven offl â– eers and 2,000-men dntinued on 6th page 4th column continued on 4th page : 2d column to rent flats s-room flats near 1 c l and jackson park steam heat hot water etc 15 byron 51 hopkixs & sons 1102 e 63d st to kent ssi3-5525 kenwood av the monroe art bldg comfortable and newly decorated apartment3 \ p 5 and 6 room ants 22.50 to 30 electric i^ook ttlt 21 lig'uts free steam heat hot water janitor and j - wu " lvl **" elevator service office in building || rent 517 â€” one mo free â€” 5 outside x^l3.t 111 tll \ rooms brick flat gas bath pantry grate a *Â«â€¢*' iia l-Â«w â– stove heat good repair clean no dogs lm â€”-^ rf _ _ _ _ â– mediate poa 6076 lafayette av cor 61st hlk l?i>Â»Â»l vy â€ž â– w of state inquire flat a ph midway g238 xvlsil t w 3.v 6-6 r new extra features 23-525 2250 i'sr ragut av c c loehde 4770 lincoln av mbeautiful austin 6-room fiats furnace heat k-e boxes tile bathrooms rent will stare - â– dec l.v-'jjrice 25 tel arinitaffe 7420 mnd you'll find the right flat at the right price the flats to rent columns in the ', i examiner's want ad and real estat^sectkm h)ffer late renters splendid opportunities to s desirable ipaaiients at reduced rates . spend a hapj mafortable mmrer by renting one of these apartment's rfl hb " â– . 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' ~ 777 _ Chicago examiner vol xii no 297 a m thursday jrkh-t vjfnt l,ihn 1 suburbs * two cents thursday Chicago december 3 1914 registered u s patent office girl leads victim into thugs loop store trap lerchant bound with rope like that used to strangle emil emsheimer 400 diamond is f taken from him by thieves iosely following the mysterious and tragic death of emil emsheimer aged manufacturer of hat frames mother crime was committed last light in which the robbers bound iheir victim with sash rope similar to that which garroted the old nan the police now believe that ; they hit the trail of the rope bandits both crimes will be near olution their latest victim was joseph wiseman 906 crescent place who as pounced upon by two robbers idea by a young woman in store of the harry hart tailor ing company 30-32 south clark street where he is manager when eiseman entered the store he was xnocked unconscious by the butt of i revolver bound tightly with win low sash rope gagged and then rob jed of a diamond stud valued at 400 and his purse containing 2 lesui/t of flirtation the rope used to bind eiseman has seen turned over to captain william p o'brien of the detective bureau svho is conducting the investigation into the emsheimer death mystery at the iroquois hospital where eiseman had been taken after the robbery he said he believed the hold up was engineered by a pretty blond iri known as ethel eiseman said e flirted with the girl a week ago lid made an engagement to meet her -. ed wahl's saloon 10 south clark reet at 8 o'clock last night while we were in the saloon the u-1 suggested that i go back to the ore and get my overcoat said eise uan i did so leaving her there hen i opened the door i was fol wed in by two young men they feed revolvers to my head i re â€” ited then they struck me over e head at the same time i could e the girl on the outside laughing le was evidently their confederate 3ek emsheimer employe while a search was going on for ese robbers two detectives from ptain o'brien's office were also ing to locate a young man employe the emsheimer factory for the pur p.se of putting him under the third egree in connection with the death | his employer following the finding of the hat in the theory that the manufacturer is killed by a thrust into his ear ras discussed there were a few drops of blood ) the old man's right ear when he as found said coroner's physician rilliam d mcnally but the blood as thought to be one of the effects f strangulation death could have been caused by le thrust of a hatpin into the ear sisters try to die as job hunt fails mother smells gas just in time to save lives of girls weary of tramping streets for work it is hard for a girl to find a job in Chicago now and the longer she has to tramp the streets on half ra tions asking for work the weaker she becomes so even if she does find a job she may be â€” by that time â€” physically unfit for toil lillian and margaret dunn how ever did not reach that stage lil lian is sixteen years old her sister eighteen after dark yesterday they came home 819 west thirty-eighth street their mother had some sup per ready the girl were not very hungry there must be jobs in Chicago â€” somewhere said lillian little good it does us if there are margaret replied gloomily we can't find them perhaps to-morrow " the mother's timidly hopeful words had no listeners however for the tired girls went away to their room the mother washed the dishes and then sat by the window for a while thinking presently the odor of gas came to her and in sudden panic she ran to the girls room they were lying on the bed the gas jet open somehow the mother found her way to a telephone the police came and a pfalmotor the girls were not per mitted to die â€” although there was an accident an explosion of liquid oxy gen that broke the pulmotor and burned the face of policeman morris casey who was standing too close the lives of the girls had been saved then they were awake oh what's the use moaned lil lian when she knew that she was to live perhaps to r morrow " the mother said there must be jobs asserted mar garet feebly if we could find them whitman guarded by posse from gunmen new york dec 2 â€” police com missioner woods to-day ordered de lectives to guard governor-elect whitman against attack from gun men what prompted the act was the report that at a socialist meeting in madison square one of the speakers pointed at the house where whitman ives and said we want personal liberty and will get it if we have to use force whitman is against us he wants to drive the gangsters out of new york if he doesn't look out he may get a bomb for christmas winner at matching is bobbed of 400 joseph lehaie a farmer from man teno 111 turned the tables on two confidence men in the matching game yesterday they permitted the farmer to win 15 then lehaie quit however as he opened his wallet containing 400 to put away his win nings the men snatched the purse and escaped lehaie said he met the men in front of the art institute while he was inspecting the lions fifty policewomen patrolling london london dec 2 â€” a force of fifty policewomen has quietly established itself here in neat blue uniforms and exaggerated bowler hats women police volunteers will in future be a feature of the london streets al though their headquarters are next door to scotland yard the movement at present has no official status u.s equipped for battle of only half hour major general wotherspoon re ports alarming condition in nation's coast defenses washington dec 2 â€” in his an nual report major general wother spoon chief of the united states army staff makes the startling an nouncement that the united states coast defense forts have ammunition for only half an hour's battle after a fight of such length the entire coast line would be at the mercy of any foe who might attack he says material for the coast artillery defenses as at present established and under construction is fairly adequate in the matter of guns mortars and mine material there is a serious de i flciency however in the ammunition for these defenses the supply of which the department has been at tempting to maintain being on the j basis of approximately an hour's full | and active operation of the guns in the united states proper and a two hours full and active operation of the guns in the oversea fortifications j gives shortage percentages according to the report of the chief of coast artillery the amount of ammunition now available and pro vided for by appropriations is equal to about 73 per cent of this require ment for the guns and 50 per cent for the mortars it is estimated that only one man is hit in the european war for every 10,0 v gin dance is biggest ball ever held hehe nobody trots or tangoes affair greater success than its sponsors dreamed at 8 o'clock last night h b marsh 2926 wilcox avenue a carpenter bowed low to mrs e eicholtz 2416 west monroe street a seamstress in dreamland hall west van buren and paulina streets then having paid the city of Chicago 30 cents for the privilege the two glided out upon the floor the first couple to scratch the wax at the first municipal dance not more than a dozen couples followed them in the two step and the band played the call of the wild at 8:40 o'clock a gentleman with j a white mustache at whose side i stood a handsome woman tapped im | patiently on the ticket seller's shelf j and laid down 75 cents by that time | the ticket seller was tired and he wasn't quite sure anyway that he would not get in trouble if he let any more people into the great hail but he finally obliged mayor har rison and mrs harrison who had with them mrs heaton owsley the mayor's sister and mr and mrs paul bartle.tt an hour later it would have been as hard to find the mayor on the floor as the carpenter ball breaks records for until ; some statistician dis proves last night's affair must stand as the largest ball ever seen in chi cago and never in Chicago nor anywhere else was there a better be haved assemblage of its size a pock et or two was picked but they pick pockets in church an extenuating circumstance for the police is that there was standing room only in the greater part of a building that spreads over twenty-three city lots long before 10 o'clock the selling of tickets was stopped and for ah hour thereafter hundreds of persons stood wistfully outside and hoped against hope for a chance to get in when the department of public wel fare counts the cash it took in at 15 cents a ticket the number of those present may be known there was no count on the turnstile but the g-ateman thought he had let in about 5,000 philip trout supervisor of dancing offered to resign if there were fewer than 10,000 persons in the hall the manager of dreamland â€” a disinter ested party last night gave as his calm judgment that there were near er 12,000 onlookers numerous the inflow was stopped however before the congestion became too great to prevent dancing everywhere but known only to a few reporters and policemen were policewomen some promenaded in street dress others in dancing frocks floated around among the merry makers with an eye open for misbe havior there was work for none nor did a sharp lookout yield a single call for professional activity on the part of dreamland's fourteen uniformed mentors who stood at their posts in the midst of the dancers as they do on other nights only waltz and two-step music was played and most of the dancers seemed to take pride in displaying the fact that they knew the meaning of the west point rule of five inches between partners owens ijv full dress quite informally and with no flour ish of trumpets nor speechmaking the dance was started so few per sons were in the hall when the first music sounded that murmurs of frost were heard but when the west side had a good chance to get home and dine and change its clothes it contributed a multitude in accordance with the announce ment issued by mrs leonora z me dor that the dance would be strictly informal there was no display of evening clothes â€” except those of county judge owens who had an ex cuse because he was up front in the grand march and of dr james brit ten plainly there was much sun day best on the floor but modesty prevailed among the young women the mayor and mrs harrison in jected themselves into the throngr as democratically and unceremoniously as the humblest citizen and his sister no committee met them they were as far as the coat counter before they were recognized there the mayor encountered a young man who was disinclined to accept his wraps without the required 10-cent cloak room ticket until mrs harrison who hail noticed his mistake hastened qp behind ~ him calling carter car ter .-'.:' - ,:â– \ that was the coatman's cue he in families gary goes to night school everybody studies after supper dishes are washed day classes smaller gary ind dec 2 after supper the whole family goes to school not only the whole family but scores hundreds of whole families make off to the gary night schools as soon as the supper dishes have been washed and put away the froebel school which exists for the education of the foreign-born and foreign language speaking work ing people of gary now has a bigger attendance by night than by day in the daytime it educates 1,900 children and at night it gives instruction to 2,100 adults bring the whole family that is the invitation which su perintendent george swarts extend ed to all gary the response was immediate new ly married couples spent part of their honeymoon at school studying gram mar and arithmetic older men brought wives and children everybody studied what he pleased selecting according to his needs from the two hundred courses that are of fered gary's foreign quarter is now believed to be one of the most stu dious communities in the world can't help being loved says actor new york dec 2 henry santry actor admits that the women love him and he just can't help it if they do ' i acknowledge he stated to-day in answer to his wife's action for a supreme court separation that jeanette sherwood and other women have expressed an affection for me both verbally and in writing but this is an incident to which most actors are subjected i have never been guilty of any misconduct mrs olga santry says she suspect ed her husband and miss sherwood of being a trifle too friendly 10,000,000 war tax assessed on antwerp london dec 2 â€” the germans have imposed a war tax of 10,000,000 on antwerp and as a guaranty of payment have made hostages of the entire commune council according to a belgian citizen who has arrived at breda holland from that city one-fifth of the impost has been paid and the remainder is to be paid at the rate of half a million daily the distress in antwerp is becom ing acute the poorer classes are facing starvation wheels chained but 1,000 wagon is gone i a driver for c f adams & co left his wagon standing at goethe and la salle streets yesterday he took the precaution however to chain the wheels when he returned the wagon with goods valued at 1,000 was gone the driver is unable to understand how the horse was able to pull the load with the wheels chained keep young by sleep is judge gary's plan new york dec 2 elbert h gary chairman of the board of di rectors of the united states steel corporation has discovered a new vitality preserver a caller at the gary home at 6 o'clock this evening found him in bed no i'm not sick smilingly ex plained judge gary it is my custom to go to bed at this time to rest my nerves and body judge gary retires about 5 in the afternoon whenever possible and recuperates until 7 o'clock cracker king 83 goes under knife new york dec 2 daniel d brinckerhoff eighty-three years old founder of the national biscuit com pany and known as the cracker king was taken from his home in ah ambulance to the pplyclinic hos pital to-nigrht . dr albert andrews brennan who is to perform a serious t)peratipn on mr brinckerhoff satur day morning wthrid not state its cause british capture boer rebels chief russians 12 miles from cracow teutons capture 80,000 prisoners belgrade taken serbs crushed germans surrounded at lodz trying to besiege town hutgutway out and fight with reinforced army : rxtssiaf official statement issued at peirograd last night : oil december 1 there was a rela * coat f rmt south of cracow we entered vielicksfca xtwelv 3 miles south of the city germanofficial statement issued yesterday in berlin j the report circulated in the for j-/\j%v eigpi press that the 23,000 prisoners c < 3hfc taken by us at kutno are included fflflfl/fflf in the 40,000 russian prisoners re ported by us previously is untrue in the battles of wloclawek -' kutno lodz and libwicz our east ern>anny has taken between no cmt 1 vember 11 and december 1 over 80,000 unwounded prisoners the germans are now moving in the direction of hdwicz a position on the enemy's right a ger man offensive toward lodz and lowicz is probable in the servian theater the austrian troops have captured fortified positions after obstinate resistance the servians lost 1,244 prisoners special cable to the examiner london dec 2 â€” the germans have pushed back the russians in the region of lowicz and captured 30,000 prisoners the german war office assered to-day _â€” _^__ i the following statement was issuer in berlin in the battles of wlaclawek.kut no lodz and lowicz the eastern army has taken between november 11 and december 1 more than 80,000 un wounded russian prisoners . . there is no news from east prus sia in northern poland battles ar taking their normal course in southern poland the enemy's attacks were repulsed the success of the germans in cut ting their way out of the trap laid for them by the russians has cost general rennenkampf his command according to a dispatch from peiro grad which says the russian leader has been relieved because he was two days late in carrying out orders $>Â£ the russian general staff . the delay is said to have prevented the cdm plete encircling of the german army and resulted in its escape reopejf battle of lodz advices from petrograd are that two new german corps hurried down the valley of the vistula the russian call for reinforcements was answered and the battle of lodz has reopened it might be renamed the battle of lowicz as to-day the severest fight ing rages around that city the lbwlcz-strykon-lodz-kalish railroad is the bone of contention the ger mans hold this on the line from stfykon to zdun skawola the germans have built trenches covered in the front with shields of barbed wire rivetjed giin eriiplacements are all prepared fox prolonged fighting the german right flank rests securely on the wartha the left is on the vistula for two days the germans lava assumed a vigorous offensive but certain russian corps have fotigrht through from glowno to sobota threatening the lowicz-kutno line which is vital to the germans in the northern area the germans have not yet entrenched it is feared they plan to do this and thus bring the tedious type of warfare to th,o eastern zone hoping in this manner to maintain themselves in russia during the winter an'd compel tiie russian army to abandon the idea oj invading silesia rvss strroujfij besiegers writing of the campaign arourd lodz the moscow correspondent ojt the dally telegraph says lodz the most important '> tmÃŸ \ gen christian 5 de wet ! whowithv sgen fredericlo \ beyers led hj | the revolt \ ? in the union < of south africa revolt in africa ended by capture special cable to the examiner pretoria dec 2 lt is officially announced that general de wet the boer leader who headed the late re volt against the british government of the union of south africa has been captured the capture of general de wet leaves the south african rebels with out a leader general beyers and lieutenant colonel maritz already have fled de wet one of the most famous generals in the boer war was the leading spirit in the anti-british movement at the outbreak of the european war and on october 26 openly revolted and took the field at the head of an army the point upon which general de wet took exception to the policy of premier botha was the determination of the union leaders not merely to defend themselves against the ger mans but to take the aggressive and invade german southwest africa in which dwell a number of boers who refused to accept the terms of peace offered by britain general beyers also a famous boer war leader was commandant of the union defense force but resigned on september 15 out of sympathy with de wet burglars get 200 loot two burglars entered the residence of p e wilsey 1100 sheridan road evanston about 8 o'clock last;night when the family was absent and stole jewelry and silverware valued at 200 serb city falls after long fight vienna dec 2 â€” belgrade servia which has been irnder attack by the austrians almost continually since the opening of the wan was again occupied by austrian troops to-day the servians are retreating along the entire southern front ' general frank commander of the fifth army corps announced the oc cupation of the city in the following telegram to emperor francis joseph on the occasion of the sixty-sixth anniversary of your reign permit me to lay at your feet the information that belgrade was to-day occupied by the fifth army corps - during the four ' months siege which was lifted on!y on two oc casions when the servians were â– in temporary possession of semlin the hungarian city across the river save belgrade has been bombarded almost continuously and is now reported by persons who have been there to be nothing more than a mass of ruins there is no disguising the fact that the situation of the servians is ex tremely dangerous although russia soon may be able to send an army to aid king peter and to save his coun try from complete subjection paris dec 2 semi-official ad vices received to-day by the havas agency from nish contain the ad mission that the austriansi have won further victories in servia after a number of rearguard actions during the last few days the servian troops were forced to fall back on december 1 from the region around oudjttza and kocieritch the retreat it is said was made itf good order â– the , lighting along the kolubara river is said to have been attended with some success for the servians iri an engagement near laracvatz on november 28 the servians are report ed to have taken positions of the enemy capturing twenty-seven offl â– eers and 2,000-men dntinued on 6th page 4th column continued on 4th page : 2d column to rent flats s-room flats near 1 c l and jackson park steam heat hot water etc 15 byron 51 hopkixs & sons 1102 e 63d st to kent ssi3-5525 kenwood av the monroe art bldg comfortable and newly decorated apartment3 \ p 5 and 6 room ants 22.50 to 30 electric i^ook ttlt 21 lig'uts free steam heat hot water janitor and j - wu " lvl **" elevator service office in 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